Varanasi: The rising toll of the lethal Covid second wave has left people across the world terrified and anxious, but death in the sacred city of Kashi is still considered a bliss. When most ghats along the Ganga wore a deserted look due to Covid scare, a group of sex workers could be seen dancing at the Manikarnika Ghat, the ‘mahashamshan’ where the fire of pyres never extinguishes.
Maintaining their age-old tradition, the sex workers, referred to as ‘nagar vadhoos’, performed dance before Maha Shamshan Nath, the lord of cremation ground, on the seventh night of Chaitra Navratra on Monday, when the three-day ‘shringar’ of the deity concluded.